"Certainty ends inquiry."

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Jacob Bronowski

#Learning Quotes #Inquiry Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.”

Source : Heywood Broun, Margaret Leech (1927). “Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord”
“Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.”
“There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.”
“The changes that we can make in the culture can be there for people that we will never meet, that will never know us, and that's what keeps me up at night. It's what excites me about science, that we can learn ways of being with each other. And the behavioral sciences have not been enough of a part of cultural development. The physical sciences have; the behavioral sciences have not. And I would like to see if we can bring some things into human culture that would humanize and soften and empower people.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Everything is clearer when you're in love.”
“People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.”
“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus”, p.127, The Floating Press
“The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!”

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